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NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Angela Allen-Bell, a professor at the Southern University Law Center. She got to know and became an advocate for Albert Woodfox during her work on solitary confinement.

Chicago is a Democratic stronghold, and the South Side neighborhood is no exception. But Pastor Corey Brooks tells NPR's Scott Simon that the Democrats have failed his friends and neighbors.

Director Pete Docter gets emotional in the animated film Inside Out. Singer and songwriter Shamir Bailey releases his debut album. And Joel Bourne explores whether the world is running out of food.

In a conversation with NPR's Scott Simon, NPR's Tamara Keith reports on Hillary Clinton's first big presidential campaign speech today, at New York's Roosevelt Island.

Israeli writer Etgar Keret wrote his first piece of nonfiction the day his son was born. Later, when his father became terminally ill, he decided to publish his essays as a "living tombstone."

Don Lessem was the dinosaur adviser for the first Jurassic Park, a job he says sounds more impressive than it was. His real big-dinosaur break happened years later, thanks to a blurry photo of a bone.

Over the weekend, a South African judge ordered the arrest of visiting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is an indicted war criminal with an international arrest warrant over the Dafur conflict.

Saudi Arabia's stock market opened on Monday to foreign traders for the first time. Why have the Saudis opened the market now, and what does it mean for the market and for investors?

When Mark Gubin realized his art studio was in the path of landing planes in Milwaukee, he decided to greet passengers with a fun message painted in big letters on his roof: Welcome To Cleveland.